Unlike in 2017, no Republican voices are speaking out to denounce Trump’s latest comments on Charlottesville Washington, DC — This week, Donald Trump tried to minimize the significance of the deadly Charlottesville white supremacist rally of 2017, referring to that horrifying weekend as “a little peanut…” As Hannah Knowles...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Now that some media outlets are reporting that President Joe Biden is considering extending immigration relief to certain undocumented...
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Washington, DC — The drumbeat for pro-immigrant, affirmative relief is growing louder. As we highlighted earlier this week, the Biden administration is exploring executive actions to grant legal status and work permits to some long-settled undocumented immigrants, including those married to American citizens. The momentum behind this vision is...
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Washington, DC — While Republican Party elected officials and candidates are increasingly embracing and mainstreaming the use of dangerous “invasion” and “replacement” immigration conspiracies, even long established anti-immigrant organizations and leaders are trying to do damage control and spin away their past and ongoing usage of such rhetoric, as...
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Washington, DC — As the Wall Street Journal and Reuters highlight, the Biden administration is exploring executive actions to grant legal status and work permits to some long-settled undocumented immigrants, including those married to American citizens. The momentum behind this affirmative policy vision is driven by American families facing...
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Read the letter HERE Washington, DC — A new letter signed by more than 150 organizations calls on elected leaders to “collectively and forcefully denounce the use of dehumanizing and demagogic rhetoric about immigrants,” noting that “language, such as saying that undocumented immigrants are an infestation, animals, or are...
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Immigrant workers have played a crucial role in the current success of the American economy. Standing in their way to continue their beneficial impact is access to work authorizations. NEW YORK — The Associated Press recently reported that one main factors allowing the U.S. have a “soft landing” –...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, the United States reinstituted deportations to Haiti, sending dozens of Haitians back to dangerous conditions in the nation via the first deportation flight to the nation since January. As Guerline Jozef, Co-founder and Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, the Black Immigrants Bail Fund, and...
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